Westminster Town Hall Forum

Neville Marriner has been Music Director of the Minnesota Orchestra since 1979. He is the world's most recorded conductor and founder of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London. A native of Lincolnshire, England, he studied violin at the Royal College of Music in London and at the Paris conservatory. He spent thirteen years as the principal second violin with the London Symphony Orchestra and has conducted most of the world's major symphony orchestras.

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Leon Martel is the former Vice President of the Hudson Institute and an eminent futurist, author, and political scientist specializing in forecasting the future shape of our society.

Kurt Waldheim is a career diplomat, former Foreign Minister of Austria, and a University Research Professor of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. He served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1982.

John Roach is the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and vice-president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. He is widely known for his leadership role on issues of peace and social justice.

J. Michael Quinlan is director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, overseeing the confinement of 44,000 offenders committed to the custody of the Attorney General. A career public administrator in the Department of Justice, he is the fifth director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons since it was established in 1930. He began his career with the Bureau as an attorney in the Central Office and served as executive assistant to the warden at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. He is currently co-vice chairman of the Committee on Prisons and Jail Problems for the American Bar Association.

Isaac Bashevis Singer began his literary career in his native Poland as a journalist for the Yiddish press. He published his first novel in 1935 and, in that same year, immigrated to the United States where his stories and novels have received high acclaim. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978 and is the recipient of two National Book Awards and a grant from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

Eugenia Zukerman is a flutist, recording artist, novelist, and arts critic. She is the music commentator on CBS News' Sunday Morning and appears regularly as a soloist with major orchestras around the world.

Edson Spencer is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at Honeywell, Inc. He is known for his strong convictions on corporate responsibility. He joined Honeywell in 1954 and served as Honeywell's Far East regional manager from 1959 to 1964. Before becoming the company's CEO, he served as corporate vice president in charge of international operations.

Ron Markman is a forensic psychiatrist who has worked with alleged killers to assess their state of mental health. He determines whether someone who has killed is sane or insane and then testifies in a court of law. An attorney as well as a psychiatrist, he has a unique perspective on the legal process and has worked for both the defense and the prosecution. He will explore the challenges of our legal system and explore the common societal belief that a person must be mentally ill to commit a crime.